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Have Any Of You Dreamed Yourself Having A Seizure BUT Not Actually Had A Seizure?

A MyEpilepsyTeam Member asked a question 💭
Antelope Valley, CA

I've read of people "dreaming" they had a seizure, then waking up and finding they did. The other night, I dreamed I had one of my seizure-like episodes (TGA). Still within my dream, just like in reality, I pieced the events together, I realizing I had had the TGA episode.

May 27
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A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

Also, I don't know if it's just me. I can't remember any dreams I have had. It's been that way for many years. Many years before I was diagnosed with epilepsy

May 27
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

Yes I have. And I feel awful in the morning.

May 27
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

Very glad you realize driving with epilepsy is fearful. Other fear we can help mind just by realizing the cause is a seizure which passed so assure self we are fine. A brief time while walking we know wont be like if while driving we know.

May 28
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

MargeryHarrop, what scares me is knowing one of the times I drove home, on the freeway, stopped at the store and made a purchase, yet have absolutely no recollection. The fear could also be because I realize something horrible could have happened, like injuring/killing myself or someone else.

May 28
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

I have seizures in my sleep all the time and the only way I can tell is when I wake up with a splitting headache and vomiting. In the beginning I had to have my mother stay with me and she said I was having 3 seizures a night in my sleep. I don't recall them, but apparently they happen. I've been sleeping on my own since after the first 4 months with a pregnancy pillow so I don't get injured. It's bizarre to me. I usually wake up confused in pain and very nauseous. I go for another EEG next month. I'm hopeful for answers where there has been none so far. They say I'm having a mix of focal, grand mal, and pseudo seizures. I don't understand any of it. I'm not dreaming of seizures, but before they started I did have dreams of having them in my dreams before the first one and woke up feeling weird and shaky before I went into having about 6 that first day and being hospitalized.

May 28

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